Re: Why aren't we preparing for space storms?
A rapidly varying electric field cutting across a conductor (like Hi-tension power lines) will generate currents that could fry control circuits, even if the power circuits automatically trip offline. Our entire society is now in the hands of digital circuitry that is extremely vulnerable to even tiny voltage or current variations. The electrical grid's muscle might survive, but not its nerves.
And more and more of our vital functions are now dependent on integrated circuitry and microprocessors, not just here on earth, but in all those satellites we depend on for almost anything.
I'm keeping my sextant skills sharp, and I'm glad my .45 contains no electrical components.